iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just chilling at home, then I remember that Ayn Rand named a character "Balf". 😂 Never gets old.

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

13963454

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Adulthood is having as many marshmallows as you want.

A black mug from Matilda: The Musical, full of hot chocolate and a large number of small multicoloured marshmallows. There is a full layer, but you can see the hot chocolate peeking through.

The same mug, with many more marshmallows. You cannot see any hot chocolate and the marshmallows have formed a mountain that rises higher than the lip of the mug.

000

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Jonathan Janz @handle.invalid · 28/03/2026

"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.

media.tenor.com

a close up of a man 's hands reaching out towards a glass wall .

ALT: a close up of a man 's hands reaching out towards a glass wall .

21819191

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

USians seemed confused: the march in London wasn't for #NoKings. It was #TogetherAlliance Against the Far Right. They suck here too.

A placard reading "Gilead -- Sponsored by Reform UK" with a Handmaid's Tale bonnet in the background.

A placard of a jar of Marmite labeled "Reject Hate" and the text "SPREAD LOVE" above it.

A placard reading "JOBS AND HOMES NOT RACISM"

111

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Korlis @korl.is · 13/03/2026

"would be" he's giving the order. the declaration itself is a war crime (...even if I remain suspicious Hegseth has no idea what it means to give no quarter). you can't just comment from the sidelines, you have to actually do something.

152

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS: sharpen the zig, sharpen the zag staircase full of petticoat fluffers chest like a pillow & a face like a wolf & THAT’S a Bratislava goodbye one eye on the flapjacks, one eye on the bellhop g-g-g-g-g-gong it! blah blah blah & your zipper’s undone Julius your Caesar 😉

1312920

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

423136725

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm listening to a new audiobook and having trouble getting into it. But worse than that, I can't figure out if the issue is the writing, the translation, or the audiobook narrator. Recently listened to a book narrated by John Hopkins, who was *excellent*. This one, maybe not.

000

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

America: [1776-?] Some great ideas marred by poor direction and unlikable characters. Greed, bigotry, and gratuitous violence. ★★☆☆☆

937771

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

2639281097

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Korlis @korl.is · 22/02/2026

if I ran for parliament promising to leave all my decision-making to a magic 8ball it would be functionally equivalent to this, but the headline wouldn't be "magic 8ball runs for parliament"

041

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 20/02/2026

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

342280646764

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Korlis @korl.is · 20/02/2026

I'd go further and say: it shouldn't matter even if they were useful (still, they aren't). If your society only functions because of a cabal of pedophiles, abusers, and sex traffickers operating with absolute impunity then it's not a society worth having.

051

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

To my knowledge, no ICE Enforcement and Removal officer has ever been shot by an immigrant. Might be wrong but I don’t think so.

381107272

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Holir @holir.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

In agreement! Love the idea of what generative models can do. Dislikes: No safe guards & rails Desire to replace all workers Need for the systems to consume everything it touches Corporate thought that it can replace human art Etc. etc

001

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"The fact that we charge tuition for the privilege of participating in these experiences could be mistaken for a scam: one in which no learning and very little effort are exchanged for grades and credits. But, I assure you, this is not a scam. This is innovation."

000

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Citizenship is a privilege" is such a fundamentally racist statement that it's really hard to know where to go from there. So Labour go to "Simply being allowed to be here is a privilege", just make sure you're getting the message. 80 years of international humanitarian law can go whistle.

14715

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Here’s a story about Nazis, antifascists, corrupt political movie-making and The Nobel Peace Prize, which has zero contemporary relevance. megaphone.link/ARML4304032796

megaphone.link

Peace Forever by The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

054

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

AAUP @aaup.org · 06/02/2026

“With this decision, Governor Stitt has made Oklahoma less attractive to highly qualified educators & has weakened the institutions that provide the most accessible & affordable education to its residents—at real cost to students, communities, & the democratic & economic future of the state.”

01113

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Reading this while home with a URI. Would like some political will, please.

000

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

429293799719

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
7um Jing
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

6040321483

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university: 1. Cyborgs & Images of Artificial Life in American Lit 2. Geography of the Middle East and Southwest Asia 3. Human Heredity 4. Advanced German Diction & Phonetics 5. Philosophy, Genocide & the Holocaust

030

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

11761323480

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

101612745

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"[I]t can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line."

000

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

11190262540

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

NYT lead headline: Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting

18397351935

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Been listening to short stories by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle this holiday. Why are Christie’s writing about women so much more repellent than Doyle completely ignoring half the population? (Also, I do NOT recommend Grant Allen. An author best left forgotten, in my view.)

From the short story, “The Great Ruby Robbery” by Grant Allen.

Such things often happen.
We're constantly called in to investigate a case, when it's only a matter of a lady's care-lessness."
At that Persis flared up. A daughter of the great republic isn't accustomed to be doubted like a mere European woman. "I'm quite sure I took them off," she said, "and put them back in the jewel case. Of that I'm just confident. There isn't a doubt possible."
Mr. Gregory redoubled his search in all likely and unlikely places. "I should say that settles the matter," he answered, blandly.
"Our experience is that whenever a lady's perfectly certain, beyond the possibility of doubt, she put a thing away safely, it's absolutely sure to turn up where she says she didn't put it." Persis answered him never a word. Her manners had not that repose that stamps the caste of Vere de Vere; so, to prevent an outbreak, she took refuge in Browning.

010

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Saw two shows on the West End today. The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Clarkston ⭐️🚩

Clarkston
28 October 2025
4 stars
The writing was fucking insufferable. A freshman comp class meets TV writing with super DRAMA!! and loads of cuts. Why the fuck were the actors screaming every line?
(Because that's how you communicate
FEELINGS apparently?) The real question is why the hell they got a standing ovation at the end of it. I guess I'm out of step with what audiences like. But honestly, that's fine. My guesses, pre-Google: the author has never experienced terminal illness, substance dependence or small-town poverty. If I'm wrong, I will be fucking shocked. Should have considered it a huge red flag that all three were in one play and there was no interval.
• Avoid in
future.

Clarkston
28 October 2025
1 and 1/2 stars
The writing was fucking insufferable. A freshman comp class meets TV writing with super DRAMA!! and loads of cuts. Why the fuck were the actors screaming every line?
(Because that's how you communicate
FEELINGS apparently?) The real question is why the hell they got a standing ovation at the end of it. I guess I'm out of step with what audiences like. But honestly, that's fine. My guesses, pre-Google: the author has never experienced terminal illness, substance dependence or small-town poverty. If I'm wrong, I will be fucking shocked. Should have considered it a huge red flag that all three were in one play and there was no interval. (Red flag emoji) Avoid in future.

010

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

192373367

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

(bravely) children shouldn’t be deprived of food or medicine

1445170

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I’ve always said that I couldn’t work in sales, but I am incredibly good at selling things that I believe in. Have you heard about the concept of human rights, or literature?

010

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

211954476

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/07/2025

THE REPORTING HERE IS IMPORTANT: “Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.” truthout.org/articles/sex...

truthout.org

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

5322165

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The word 'god' underwent a gender change. It comes from the neuter Proto-Germanic noun *gudan. This is shown by Old English, Old Norse and Gothic, where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form. Their masculine gender was introduced by Christianity. Click my graphic for more:

615451

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

mattneil.bsky.social @mattneil.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A student is absent for whatever reason, say sports, or illness and they need to make up some work. They take awhile to make it up, and then complete the work. Their parents want their grade immediately updated and they do too. You have 180 students, so that's not possible. What happens?

341

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

i think this tumblr post is incredibly important for baby gays (all queer people really) to read at least once before they try to fit themselves in a neat heteronormative little box, cause fascists WILL put a pink triangle on your box and send you and all of us other 'degenerates' to a death camp.

624686

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

☕ Happy World Book Day! 📚✨

Pusheen reads a book while comfy in a bean bag chair.

71590346

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities. Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social

Screenshot of the AHA statement that says, "The humanities are not a luxury," said MLA executive director Paula M. Krebs. "They are a necessity, teaching people vital skills, including how to effectively communicate, construct arguments, evaluate evidence, and build connections across cultures. Cutting the NEH's funding and staff jeopardizes not only the work of the MLA and its members but also thousands of locally led programs across the country that provide Americans with access to essential education. In the face of these unprecedented and destructive cuts, humanities leaders must fight back together."

04520

Kathryn Shrader @kmshrader.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Spent an hour this morning trying to research cat food and having my time utterly wasted by AI slop. These are the thousand cuts that make me want to throw the whole field off a cliff.

“Cats are known for their independence and mysterious nature”. Yeah, that’s how I’ll begin this piece evaluating cat foods.

“The 7lb bag size is convenient for households with one or two cats…” And if you have more, well I guess it’s a shame that pet foods don’t come in different size bags.

“The standout feature“!!! I think a computer has been sucking up too many tech blogs.

030

Reposted by Kathryn Shrader

Wasp Summer #JoinAUnion @waspsummer.eurosky.social · 26/04/2025

Timeline cleanse: cat vandal edition

091